““Let’s not forget that Russia has decided to escalate this war by bringing North Korean troops into the battlefield and into battle””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“I can’t announce or confirm anything at this time, if we have more information to release publicly, we will. However, taking a step back to answer some of your questions generally, let’s not forget where we are and the fact that Russia has decided to escalate this war by bringing North Korean troops into the battlefield and into the battle. Therefore, what we are doing is what we have been doing from the very beginning, which is to ensure that Ukraine has what it needs,” she said.
Singh added that Washington continues to support Ukraine through various presidential programs aimed at ensuring Ukraine’s short-term and long-term security.
The day before, the US State Department neither confirmed nor denied the change in US policy regarding the use of American weapons for long-range strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation.
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On November 17, American publications, in particular The New York Times and the Washington Post, reported that US President Joe Biden allowed Ukrainian forces to use US-provided ATACMS for strikes against the Russian Federation.
The outlet’s unnamed sources said Ukrainian forces are expected to strike Russian and North Korean forces in Russia’s Kursk region first, and that the Biden administration may expand that authorization to use ATACMS against targets elsewhere in Russia in the future.
U.S. officials quoted by the media said the U.S. authorized these limited Ukrainian strikes in response to the deployment of North Korean forces on the battlefield in Kursk Oblast to deter North Korea from deploying additional forces to Russia. US officials said the partial lifting of the restrictions was intended to have a “specific and limited” effect on the battlefield and would not change the course of the war.
There is no official confirmation of this information from Washington yet.
The President of Ukraine, responding to such reports, noted that “such things are not announced” and “the rockets will speak for themselves.”
The Kremlin, in response to reports of possible permission for Ukraine to use Western long-range missiles to strike Russia, declared a “qualitatively new round of tensions” and “a new situation from the point of view of the involvement of the United States in this conflict.”
Ukraine has previously struck targets of Russian forces with its weapons, including drones, but for a long time called on the West to allow full-range missiles, meaning Western-made missiles.